Yurlu | Country is a feature-length documentary that takes you into the remote red gorges of the Pilbara in Western Australia and its rich Banjima history with Aboriginal elder Maitland Parker. This stunning landscape is also scarred by Australia’s very own Chernobyl – the largest contaminated site in the Southern Hemisphere where asbestos contamination has rendered an area more than half the size of Berlin inaccessible. Yurlu | Country is Maitland’s last stand to protect his family and culture, and to write his final chapter as he fights for his homelands’.

Aboriginal Elder Maitland Parker is fighting to heal his homelands scarred by Australia’s very own Chernobyl - the Southern Hemisphere’s largest asbestos-contaminated site. Maitland dedicated his life to calling for a clean-up because for his people - Banjima, the landscape is a living, breathing entity. When the land is sick, we are sick. For decades, government inquiries have called for a complete and timely clean-up, yet nothing has happened. This film brings what is out of sight into full view; it delivers a timeless story at a timely moment. If Australia, a wealthy, stable democracy, cannot clean-up Wittenoom, and get the regulatory setting in place to avoid another mining disaster, what chance does a “just transition have” elsewhere?